![]() ![]() Obviously I don’t want to go too much into the details of the plot, because the last thing that I want to do is to spoil it for people. After all, robots aren’t alive, right? There’s even some stuff on how while you can use roboticide and homicide, the word “ murder” doesn’t seem to quite apply. In fact, the whole case here revolves around the murder of a robot, and so there’s a lot of discussion around whether such a thing is even possible. Then we have the morality side of things. We get some great examples of that here, including some suggestions of scenarios which could cause two of the laws to come into conflict with themselves and to cause a robot to overload. What’s fun about this book, like the other books that tie in with these laws, is that Asimov basically created them only so that he could bend and break them. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws. ![]() A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. ![]() Asimov is probably most famous for creating the three laws of Robotics, which are the following: This book is one of the installments in Asimov’s Robot series, and so that makes it essentially a science fiction detective novel with a whole bunch of ethics thrown in. ![]()
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